athy with the spirit of this little
book. I know of no inharmony here, however we may differ upon
minor points of expediency as to the best methods of working for
the political advancement of woman. And further, it is the deep
conviction of us all that the chief stumbling-block in the way of
our obtaining the use of the ballot, is the apprehension among
men of low degree that they will surely be limited in their base
and brutal and sensual indulgencies when women are armed with
equal political power.

As to my husband, to whose ancestry Mrs. Phelps so kindly
alludes, permit me to say that he is not only descended from
Thomas Hooker, the beloved first pastor of the old Centre Church
in Hartford, and founder of the State of Connecticut, but further
back his lineage takes root in one of England's most honored
names, Richard Hooker, surnamed "The Judicious"; and I have been
accustomed to say that, however it may be as to learning and
position, the characteristic of judiciousness has not departed
from the American stock. I will only add that Mr. Hooker is
treasurer of our State suffrage association, and has spoken on
the platform with me as president, whenever his professional
duties would permit, and that he is the author of a tract on "The
Bible and Woman Suffrage." Our society has printed several
thousand copies of this tract, and the London National Women's
Suffrage Society has reprinted it with words of high commendation
for distribution in Great Britain. * * * And now, dear madam,
thanking you once more for this most unexpected and most grateful
opportunity for correcting misapprehensions that others may have
entertained as well as Mrs. Phelps in regard to the design and
tendencies of our movement, may I not ask that you will kindly
read and consider the papers I shall take the liberty to send
you, and hand them to your co-workers at your convenience?

That we all, as women who love our country and our kind, may be
led to honor each other in our personal relations, while we work
each in her respective way for that higher order of manhood and
womanhood that alone can exalt our nation to the ideal of the
fathers and mothers of the early republic, and preserve us an
honored place among the peoples of the earth, is the prayer of